S19 Ep87: One Giant Leap For Mankind: The 55th Anniversary of Apollo 11
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🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This Saturday marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing! Darkness Radio celebrates by taking a behind the scenes look at this historic event with NASA Expert and space historian, Rod Pyle! Rod is the author of over 20 books including the wonderful, "First On The Moon: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Experience"! We recap this history of this amazing event with Rod today, and then dig deeper as we ask him questions about the Space Program's future, specifically about heading back to the moon... and what he thinks about that massive cave they found up there recently!
Get your copy of Rod's book, "First On The Moon..." here: https://www.pylebooks.com/
Rod is the Editor in Chief of Ad Astra magazine! Which you can check out here: https://adastra.nss.org/
Remember, Rod is on Ancient Aliens tonight! Ancient Aliens airs at 9 PM ET/ 8 PM CT on the History Channel! See them online here: https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens
To read that tory again, and see the video that Tim was talking about with the raccoon (Rocket) choking on cheese, follow this link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/animalkind/2024/06/21/choking-raccoon-saved-video/74158907007/
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Welcome to the best in paranormal podcasting. This is Darkness Radio. I'm your host Tim Dennis so this week |
| 0:34.8 | this weekend as a matter of fact is we are now on the 18th of July the 20th is |
| 0:41.0 | the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and I figured this would be as good |
| 0:48.7 | as any to bring in a very esteemed guest. |
| 0:52.8 | Rod Pyle is with us today |
| 0:54.2 | as we are celebrating the 55th anniversary |
| 0:57.4 | of the Apollo 11 mission. |
| 1:00.4 | Rod is a space historian who has worked with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Johnson Space Center. |
| 1:07.0 | He's written 20 books on the history and technology of space exploration and the science for major publishers in the US, UK, and Asia. |
| 1:15.0 | And the book that we're focusing on today is one of his most popular books, |
| 1:21.0 | first on the moon, the Apollo 11th, 50th anniversary experience. |
| 1:25.9 | Now it sold out within hours of its release. |
| 1:28.3 | We're going to focus today on the Apollo 11 mission, what happened before it and what got it off the ground. |
| 1:37.3 | The space race between the US and Russia will focus on what eventually happened when it finally got up there to the moon, |
| 1:45.0 | some of the things that happened surrounding the crew, |
| 1:47.0 | and of course what happened afterwards, |
| 1:49.0 | and where we're at today, including a new story that came out this past week about a |
| 1:53.9 | crater up there on the moon or a cave on the moon and how that may affect some of |
| 1:59.5 | the missions surrounding the moon and I believe there is another new story we'll talk to |
| 2:05.5 | route about today involving the moon so and and where we're at with the moon and |
| 2:10.8 | Subsequently why we're in such a rush to get back to the moon. |
| 2:15.2 | So we'll talk to Rod about that as well. |
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